The final stretch from the Divine Firmament World to beyond the heavens had been erased by Xingnian in that past where his body perished and his path vanished.
Duke Xuannan's strike, certain to land "at this moment," had already been doomed to miss "at that time."
At this moment, the Celestial Vault of the Divine Firmament World, which was ascending in essence, lay in a hazy blur.
Only the starry road could be seen, winding beyond the heavens, turning toward the distance and pointing the Human Race wanderer home.
Below the Celestial Vault stood the golden-glowing divine guardian general; below that were the Mountains and Rivers, endlessly collapsing and endlessly forming anew.
Drip~ tap!
The sound of heaven collapsing and earth splitting was not truly heard by his ears, yet Duke Xuannan seemed to hear droplets falling within that eternal Long River of time.
They were the years slipping through his fingers, the possibilities he had personally let slip away, One sound echoing a thousand times, one drop stirring ten thousand ripples.
The tens of millions of divine statues arrayed upon the Celestial Demon Dharma Altar resembled a divine flower half withered.
And the divine guardian general under his control raised its right hand, as though it were bidding farewell to that Human Race brat...
How utterly laughable!
Though this was not a duel between him and Jiang Wang, and he had merely missed Xingnian's move, did losing in the "present" to the "past" somehow make it any less humiliating?
More important than his pride were the consequences of Jiang Wang taking away news of the Divine Firmament World's opening!
He could not accept it.
The golden-glowing divine guardian general toppled straight backward, falling into the surging, roaring torrent.
Then a ray of golden light leapt from the torrent, streaked